About Me

Fellow needle nerds, quilt queens, and fashion fixers, I’m excited to join you! As a long time dabbler I have spent decades tasting types of thread related hobbies.  When I came across this website I thought a sewing team is exactly what I need to level up my skills! 

I’m Katie Isaacson, wife to a website genius / entrepreneur, homemaker in a 50 year old house, big sister to 7 brothers and sisters, and mother of 7 crazy kiddos. Running this chaos on a budget requires creative thinking and repurposing, which is how my childhood interest led me here. 

I caught the costume bug back in high school at North Fremont, where I went to school. My mom led the costume team, so I got to spend years making fun things alongside her and some good friends — one I still smile about was a Cinderella dress that changed from rags to a ball gown right there on stage, no fairy dust required. These days I do the costumes for the musical at Madison High, I learned to quilt at my grandma’s side, I ran a little blanket business for a while, and there’s pretty much always a pile of neighbors’ jeans, zippers, and “can you fix this?” projects waiting at my machine. Costumes taught me you can fudge a lot — a few well-placed pins in a pinch, as long as it looks right from the back row, and you make it sturdier before the next show. A couple of years doing alterations at a dry cleaner’s were the opposite: there it has to be done right, every single time — and somewhere between the two, I really learned the sewing itself, not just the design.

I’m a firm believer in the village. It takes one to raise a kid, but more than that, it takes a tribe to keep a mom sane, make a house a home, and make the world beautiful. In today’s world, that village is what we make it, and we get tribes of all varieties.